âSometimes while i watched the waves roll along the piers, i secretly prayed that the sea would mend Babaâs broken heartâthe way it was slowly healing mine.â
Spin The Dawn by Elizabeth Lim
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âSometimes while i watched the waves roll along the piers, i secretly prayed that the sea would mend Babaâs broken heartâthe way it was slowly healing mine.â
Spin The Dawn by Elizabeth Lim
âLearn from my mistakes,â she said, so softly I had to lean close to hear, âand learn from my joys. Surround yourself with those whoâll love you always, through your mistakes and your faults. Make a family that will find you more beautiful everyday, even when your hair is white with age. Be the light that makes someoneâs lantern shine.â
Sic Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
âMy parents think of marriage as a duty to oneâs family and country,â Takkan said, by way of response. âI think of it as a duty to oneâs heart. Food feeds the belly, thoughts feed the mind, but the love is what feeds the heart. I hoped, with my letters, that Shiori and I might grow to make each otherâs hearts full. That we might be happy together.â
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
âIâm not afraid of anything. How often I had uttered the same words. But they were always a lie, and I had a feeling Seryu was lying, tooâ
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
âFind the light that makes your lantern shine,â she used to say. âHold on to it, even when the dark surrounds you. Not even the strongest wind will blow out the flame.â
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
âAccording to the stories, she looked so beautiful when she was in pain that no one realized she was wasting away from a heart disease until one day she collapsed in the garden, fingers clawing futilely at her snow-white chest. In the old stories, that counted as romance.â
The Burning God by R. F. Kuang
âDonât go to those grottoes, Nezha.â He sounded very tired then. âDonât take on the burden of an entire nation. Itâs too heavy. And you arenât strong enough.â
The Burning God by R. F. Kuang
âWe loved Riga,â Daji said, unfazed. âAnd if we ever feared him, it was because he was great, and great rulers always inspire fear in the hearts of the weakâ
The Burning God by R. F. Kuang
âWar didnât end, not so cleanlyâ it just kept building up in little hurts that piled on one another until they exploded afresh into raw new woundsâ
The Burning God by R.F.Kuang
âIt doesnât go away. It never will. But when it hurts, lean into it. Itâs so much harder to stay alive. That doesnât mean you donât deserve to live. It means youâre brave.â
The Burning God by R. F. Kuang
âDo you know what your problem is?â Daji asked. âYouâve been fighting this entire war on the defensive. Youâre still thinking like someone on the run. But itâs time you started thinking like a ruler.â
The Burning God by R. F. Kuang
âShe tried to find comfort in that thought, but the uncertainty of not knowing, only hurt more.â
The Burning God by R.F. Kuang
âYou donât fix hurt by pretending they never happened. You treat them like infected wounds. You dig deep with a burning knife and gouge out the rotten flesh and then, maybe, you have a chance to healâ
The Burning God by R. F. Kuang
âSouji knew that she wasnât thrilled with this tentative campaignâthis sort of half fighting, of provoking from the shadows instead of facing the enemy head-on. It defied every strategic principle sheâd ever been taught. Sheâd been taught to win, and to win conclusively to preempt a later counter attack. Souji, on the other hand, flirted with victory but never took the spoils. He left chess pieces open all over board, like a dog might bury bones to savor laterâ
The Burning God by R. F. Kuang
âSee, theyâre bullies. Weakness is what they want to see. Theyâre so convinced that weâre just base, cowardly animals, they wonât stop to question it. They donât want to believe we can fight back, so they wonâtâ
The Burning God by R.F. Kuang
âShe was finding it easier and easier to cut him off. Sheâd learned now to divide her mind into clean, convenient compartments. Thoughts could be blocked. Memories suppressed. Life was so much easier when she blockaded off the part of her that agonized over what sheâd done. And as long as she kept those parts of her mind seperateâthe part that felt pain and the part that fought warsâthen she would be all right.â
The Burning God by R. F. Kuang